{"id":373,"date":"2014-01-15T07:00:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=373"},"modified":"2014-01-15T10:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T15:40:51","slug":"fly-like-a-jellyfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/fly-like-a-jellyfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Fly like a&#8230; jellyfish?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"940\" height=\"529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cFGPt9BDfBE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ornithopters &#8211; robotic vehicles that fly by flapping their wings like birds and insects &#8211; push the limits of human ingenuity and our understanding of the mechanics of flight. A new device built at New York University breaks the mold by mimicking another kind of creature altogether: the jellyfish. The robot\u2019s pulsing motion is remarkably stable when hovering and able to recover easily from disturbances.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1098\/rsif.2013.0992\" target=\"_blank\">Original research article<\/a><\/span> published in <em>Journal of the Royal Society Interface<\/em>\u00a0on <strong>January 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Name and affiliations of selected authors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/physics.nyu.edu\/~jz11\/people.html\" target=\"_blank\">Leif Ristroph<\/a>, New York University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ornithopters &#8211; robotic vehicles that fly by flapping their wings like birds and insects &#8211; push the limits of human ingenuity and our understanding of the mechanics of flight. A new device built at New York University breaks the mold by mimicking another kind of creature altogether: the jellyfish. The robot\u2019s pulsing motion is remarkably [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[417],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-royal-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/jellyfish_thumbnail.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-61","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}